Deadball Quick Start

This is a free quick-start guide to the bestselling Deadball: Baseball With Dice, a fast-paced baseball dice game for one or two players that uses real statistics to bring the ballpark to your tabletop.

Deadball uses real statistics that every fan knows and understands, like batting average and ERA, allowing new players to pick it up in minutes. Because the game is based directly on real, freely-available stats, you can play as any team you want.

Any. Team. You. Want.

Pit history's greatest teams against each other. Replay seasons from fifty years before you were born. Watch today's all-stars go head-to-head with the legends of the past. Any match-up you can imagine, Deadball will make real.

This free guide contains:

A brief introduction to the game's core concepts

A blank scorecard, with instructions for creating a lineup, for players who wish to write in a lineup of present-day or historical players

A pre-filled scorecard, featuring the players of Deadball's fictional Southern Circuit, for players who would rather jump straight into the game

Once you've played the quick start, you can dive straight into either the main rulebook, which is designed for all eras of play from 1920 to the present, or Deadball: 1909, a standalone expansion that reworks the game for the gritty, low-scoring era of the early 1900s.

A NOTE ABOUT DICE: This guide does not come with dice. You can play Deadball with any standard set of RPG dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d00, d12, d20), or a dice-rolling app.

It is as promised a neat way to play baseball across generations. I played the 27 Yankees versus the 54 Indiands . Early Wynn and his bullpen was too much for the famed Yankees to deal with . I am so going to play it again . [...]

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